Word: heroines
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...moved away, while the predominantly black community has grown from 30,000 in the mid-1960s to 42,000 (Hispanics, few in number in 1965, now constitute 25% of the total). On "Mother's Day," so called because it marks the arrival of welfare checks, sales surge in cocaine, heroin and PCP. Riot? No, says Baptist Minister Charles Mims Jr., explaining, "The militants are all high. You can't be angry and high at the same time...
...provisions of California law that stipulate criminal responsibility for a death occurring as a result of a dangerous felony, in this case the supplying of narcotics. She was indicted after giving an interview to the National Enquirer in which she reportedly told of repeatedly injecting the comedian with a heroin-and-cocaine mixture known as a "speed-ball." The Enquirer quoted Smith as saying, "I killed John Belushi. I didn't mean to, but I am responsible." Said L.A. Deputy District Attorney Elden Fox: "She sold the story for $15,000, confessing to committing 14 felonies in the state...
...ARRESTED. HAJI BASHIR NOORZAI, 44, Afghan narcotics trafficker called a "drug kingpin" by U.S. President George Bush last June; for allegedly smuggling 500 kg of heroin worth more than $50 million into the U.S.; in New York City. U.S. prosecuting attorney David Kelley said Noorzai was involved in a 14- year "unholy alliance" with Afghanistan's former Taliban leaders, trading drugs and weapons for government protection. Noorzai, who faces 10 years to life in prison if convicted, pleaded not guilty in a U.S. District Court last Wednesday...
DIED. Auguste Joseph Ricord, 74, French-born drug trafficker who from his base in Paraguay during the late 1960s and early '70s masterminded the Latin Connection, the syndicate that shipped $1.2 billion worth of Turkish heroin from Europe through Central and South America to the U.S.; of undisclosed causes; in Asunción, Paraguay. Arrested there in 1971 on U.S. conspiracy charges, Ricord, one of the biggest drug kingpins ever snared by the U.S., was sentenced in 1973 to 20 years' imprisonment, but was released after ten because of poor health...
...police now play in areas such as major drug busts (particularly for amphetamines, for which illicit factories in southern China are a major source). "The biggest threat to Australia where we require assistance from China is in drug trafficking," he says. "China is a major transit country for the heroin coming from the Golden Triangle." On the other side, China's focus is currently on 500 economic fugitives who have absconded with billions of dollars; six suspects have been repatriated from Australia...